Hook and lock for iron bedsteads.



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G. WILLIAMS.

HOOK AND LOCK FOR IRON BEDSTEADS.

(Application filed Mar. 14, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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ATENT OFFICE.

OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

HOOK'AND LOOK FOR IRON BEDSTEADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,427, dated January 21', 1902.

Application filed March 14,

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Locks for Iron Bedsteads; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same.

My invention has reference especially to a new and useful improvement in a combined hook and lock for iron bedsteads, all substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the corner-post lock or looking member, so called; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the hook or hook member with a portion of a side rail to which it is secured. Fig. 3 shows a side elevation of said members or parts in engaged position as in use. Fig. 4 is a reduced perspective elevation of the hook and a section of side rail, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the lock member.

The combined lock thus shown comprises two distinct and separate members or parts A and B, and for convenience of description the part A is herein referred to as the lock or looking member and the part B as the hook or hook member, while 0 is a section of a side rail of a bedstead.

The leading idea of the construction of parts A and B is to provide alocking mechanism for metallic bedsteads, usually of iron or brass or part of both, and employing by preference a cylindrical or tubular cornerpost and angle-iron side rails. The present construction of lock Atherefore contemplates the use of tubular posts, though it is not limited to a post of any special shape or design, and it likewise contemplates the use of a side rail O,which is substantially L. shape in crosssection and has hooks B secured permanently thereto by rivets or otherwise.

The structural features of member A are clearly brought out in Fig. 5, wherein are shown a body portion 2, with a cylindrical bore or opening adapting said member to be sleeved and fitted closely upon the cornerpost I), wings 3 and 4., forming an outer fac- (No model.)

ing .for the end and hook of side rail 0 and for the cross plate, bar, or connection between the end posts and which rests upon or is secured rigidly to horizontal flange 5, and flange 6, which stands vertically on body 2 and has lateral projections 7 at its sides.

All the foregoing features are integral with look A, except possibly projections 7, which may be formed of a section of rod or bar inserted through flange 6. Said flange is in a plane parallel to side wing 4:, and between them there is room to enter one of the hooks 8 or 9 on hook member 13, according as one set or the other of said hooks is above. The said hooks are arranged in pairs and are exactly alike, bothindividually and in pair, and are spaced apart at their extremities to afford room to engage over projections 7. It will allel front edges 10, adapted to bear evenly against the straight surface 12 on the body of the look, while the hooks have an inclined inner edge 14, deepening from the point of the hook inward, so as to get a drawing and tightening effect when the hooks are engaged over projections or lugs 7 and seated and tightened on their seats when pressed downward. The relation of the parts when such seating for use is accomplished is seen in Fig. 3. In this art it is desirable to have a side rail 0, adapted to be conveniently reversed, so as to raise or lower a bed at least the depth of the rail in cross-section and to adapt it to various conditions in the bed-springs or mattresses used-that is, some mattresses are too wide to rest between said rails and so are some bedspring frames. Then by reversing the rails the slats-can be placed on top of the flat flanges 15 of the side rails instead of resting on the inner sides thereof, as they would in Fig. 4. It will be noticed that there is a space vertically between the hooks 8 and 9 at each side to receive the flange 6 snugly between them, and the inner surfaces of said hooks are purposely flat to make such close engagement, thus contributing to rigidity and quiet in the joints.

It will be noticed in Fig. 3 that hooks 8 are caused practically to wedge in between the facing 12 on head 2 and pins or projections 7 on flange 6; but there is also a bracing effect obtained by the lower hooks bearing also be noticed that the said hooks have par against the head below the hookingpoint whether books 8 or 9 be below.

What I claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a lock for bedsteads constructed to besecnred upon a bedstead-post and having vertically-disposed wings at right angles to each other and a perpendicular flange with flat sides parallel to one of said Wings and at the side thereof and oppositely-arranged pins on the sides of said flange, substantially as described.

2. In bedsteads, a corner-piece having a flange standing out therefrom with parallel vertical sides and oppositely-arranged pins on its sides, in combination with an engaging member having a pair of hooks to fasten on said pins on the sides of said flange, said hooks having abutting portions on their outer edges to bear directly against said cornerpiece, substantially as described.

3. The lock having a vertical flange at one side with opposite horizontal pins on the sides of the flange, in combination With a pair of hooks engaged over said pins and bearing against said look at their outer edges, a brace integral with and beneath said hooks and bearing against said lock beneath the hooks and a vertically-disposed flange with sides parallel to one of said wings and having pins horizontally on its opposite sides, substantially as described.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a reversible hook memberfor side rails of abedstead having two pairs of op positely-arranged hooks, the hooks in each pair being parallel i to each other with an even space between them and the said pairs of hooks having their points projecting toward each other and spaced apart,-whereby said member is made reversible and is adapted to hook upon the 5 opposite member and brace itself in position, substantially as described.

6. A reversible hook member for side rails of bedsteads having oppositely arranged hooks in pairs separated at their pointsand having their front edges on the same plane and constructed on their inner edges to make a wedging engagement, in combination with a post-lock having a flat-sided flange with opposite pins adapted to be gripped by one of 

